DAMN EVR!
I want to believe Microsoft is actually doing something good for us, but then it all proves they are not! With EVR I have the exact same problem I have with WMP, gray bars. Have a look at the screenshot above. The video is widescreen and the bars added are exactely (16,16,16) RGB. If I use ffdshow's level correction + RGB High Quality output I get this weird result.
http://rash.apanela.com/images/wmp_grey_back.jpg
Very, very annoying. Now back to Haali (that is awsome, I am not complaining, really).
The strange thing, though, is that I am still getting the "DVD: Macrovision Fail" error when using Cyberlink Audio Decoder. I don't get this error on KMPlayer (I am using a region free DVD).